On 23 May 2010, Johan Kullstam wrote: > Anthony Campbell <a...@acampbell.org.uk> writes: > > > On 23 May 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Hi Mitchell, > >> > >> You might add > >> > >> == > >> |su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin| > >> == > >> > >> in /etc/inittab. > >> > >> > > > > But why was the OP getting the message in the first place? A couple of > > weeks ago I was also getting it and then it went away as mysteriously as > > it came. > > I don't know why you suddenly started getting it, but it is what you > have when booting to single-user-mode. The grub menu calls it "recovery > mode" and you can always get to it with "telinit 1". In my grub menu > list of kernels, I see the "recovery mode" coming right after the normal > mode for each kernel. I could see that if the line with normal mode was > disabled, missing or broken, grub might just skip down to recovery mode > which gives you the behavior. >
Yes, I know it's recovery mode but there didn't seem to be any reason why it was coming up. Pressing Crtrl-D made everything happen normally. Just one of the mysterious things that happen with computers, I suppose ... -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100524091309.ga21...@acampbell.org.uk
